Q: The maturation hypothesis (flagged conjecture)

A longer-horizon conjecture the design is built to test — always marked as such, and kept distinct from the observable oscillation of {{ref:claim-expand-contract|Expand–contract}} (standing discipline: say which is which first).

The conjecture: as the stack matures, contraction depth shrinks and re-expansion speeds up, until the loop effectively disappears — Nostr as invisible protocol, the way HTTPS became invisible infrastructure.

What would count as evidence: a time series of shock episodes with measurable contraction depth and recovery time; falsified if depth and recovery don't trend, or if mature sub-networks still contract as hard as young ones.

Related: - {{ref:emergentgov|Index}} - {{ref:claim-expand-contract|Expand–contract}} - {{ref:q-generativity-robustness|Q: Is robustness generativity rather than redundancy?}} - {{ref:concept-adaptive-governance|Adaptive governance as feedback architecture}}